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BY KEITH NUTHALL
DIVISIONS over the EU sugar regime reforms have been clarified at a European Union (EU) Council of Ministers (agriculture) meeting. British, Danish, German, Swedish, Latvian and Maltese delegations wanted “rapid reform, to make the sector more competitive”, though concerns of ex-European colonies in the African Pacific Caribbean (ACP) bloc “should be taken into account”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ITALIAN and Luxembourg governments will face legal action at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) aimed at forcing them to authorised royalties to authors when their books are borrowed from libraries. The European Commission alleges by not doing so, such payments break the 1992 European Union (EU) directive on rental rights and copyright.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW European Union (EU)-funded research project is helping the European dye industry survive against intense overseas competition by developing new ecologically-sound niche products. The Euro 10 million SOPHIED project should wrap up next year. Its aims, said an in house technical note, are:

*Identifying new dye molecules which are less toxic and synthesised biotechnologically for high added value markets;

*Creating new safe enzyme-assisted processes for the production of existing dyes;

*Inventing new clean-up technologies for detoxifying dye-contaminated wastewaters.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SMUGGLERS are liable for customs duties on goods they present to excise officials in the European Union, used to conceal more valuable undeclared cargo, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Captured smugglers – allowed into the country in a controlled delivery operation – had tried to sneak into Belgium 7 million cigarettes behind 29 cases of cooking utensils.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SMUGGLERS are liable for customs duties on goods they present to excise officials in the European Union, used to conceal more valuable undeclared cargo, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Captured smugglers – allowed into the country in a controlled delivery operation – had tried to sneak into Belgium 7 million cigarettes behind 29 cases of cooking utensils.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SMUGGLERS are liable for customs duties on goods presented to excise officials in the European Union, which are used to conceal more valuable undeclared tobacco, the European Court of Justice has ruled. Captured smugglers – allowed into the country in a controlled delivery operation – had tried to sneak into Belgium 7 million cigarettes behind 29 cases of cooking utensils.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has accused nine European Union (EU) governments of dragging their feet over promoting biofuels in their countries. It has sent critical formal notices to Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and Slovenia accusing them of failing to submit national reports framing 2005 targets for biofuel consumption, as required under the Biofuels Directive.…

KEITH NUTHALL
ITALY, Finland, Belgium and Greece are being taken to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) by the European Commission, which says these governments have failed to properly establish the European Union (EU) emissions trading regime in their countries. This came into force on January 1, but has to be written into national statute books in a uniform way.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN Union (EU) governments must make a clear ruling within 180 days of a manufacturers’ application for a medicine to eligible for refunds under a state health insurance scheme, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled. In a case involving the Belgian government and Merck, the ECJ added that where a government missed this deadline, a company could not assume a positive decision.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
PRESSURE on oil companies to continue cleansing their fuels of potential pollutants continues to be applied within the European Union (EU), with the European Commission preparing for the introduction of a new standard ‘Euro 5’ in 2010. It has advised EU member states to harmonise any tax concessions encouraging the use of diesel cars cleaner than the ‘Euro 4’ emissions standard, (which became compulsory on January 1).…